In this interview, Greg Obis attempts to demystify mastering—while explaining why it'd still be a good idea to let a ...

On “Ready,” the opening track of his self-released 2024 debut album, Ready Now, Chicago singer-songwriter Deonte Baker shares ...

Last fall, a few months after Robinson left Oxbow, Buñuel released their fourth full-length, Mansuetude (Skin Graft), a ...

After the hectic pace of Pride, drag and burlesque performers share their insights for resting, reconnecting, and recharging.

Celine Song's one-act Tom & Eliza provides a dark and absurdist twist to a relationship drama at TUTA Theatre.

Twenty years after its premiere, The Color Purple gets a glorious production at the Goodman under Lili-Anne Brown's direction ...

Madhuri Shekar's Dhaba on Devon Avenue at Writers Theatre is a touching family drama set in a struggling Indian restaurant.

The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So we need you to chip in, even if it’s ...

With a new EP of meticulous, melodramatic emo, Chicago five-piece Boundary Waters prove you don’t have to quit your basement ...

Aria Pedraza launches the Midwest Rave Culture Archive with a park party, Elastic Arts executive director Adam Zanolini steps ...

In red bean, an experimental film by Tianjiao Wang, tempered by a 16-mm lens, the artist observes much and judges little.

Michael Miner, a former Reader editor and columnist, was truly a journeyman of Chicago journalism and has the distinction of ...